Mabel

M3A1B3E1L1
/ˈmeɪbl̩/

proper noun

A female given name from Latin.

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Mable

  1. A female given name from Latin.

    The red stitching across the breast pocket read Mabel, a name Maggie had not heard since her childhood. What had become of all the Mabels? She tried to picture giving a new little baby that name.

    1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, →ISBN, page 28
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    Her name was Mabel Hortense, and the children were very proud of having a cousin who lived in the city and was named Mabel Hortense. At Damsonfield Four Corners, where they lived, all the little girls were name Mary Jane or Sarah Ann or Lucy Maria, or, at the best, Hattie and Carrie; they had scarcely even heard so fine a name as Mabel Hortense.

    1883, Sophie Swett, “All the Plums”, in St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol.10, Part 1, page 34

Origin

  1. Latinamābilis“lovable”
  2. EnglishMabel

Clipping of Amabel, from Latin amābilis (“lovable”).

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